If you're curious about Hypnogenesis, a video feedback space shooter, @allenriley.com edited our @exgs.bsky.social talk from @officialgdc.bsky.social into a clean video with lots of game footage! #indiegames #videofeedback www.youtube.com/watch?v=n38C...
Hypnogenesis by Allen Riley and Andy Wallace
YouTube video by Allen Riley
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I once again consult my Triangle of Despair® life improvement model first established in 2012: Instructions: Each of the three corners (Confused, Discouraged, Unhealthy) leads to the others. Remove one corner to break the triangle.
I apparently made this MS Paint illustration of the Dream House by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela which I emailed to myself on February 12, 2010 (dh.bmp)
I pretty much had zero or negative interest in the idea of art before seeing the Dream House in 2002 and I still don’t really understand or make art that isn’t somehow like the Dream House
There was a lot more crowd footage of my 2022 Smashing Pumpkins cover show than I realized. I learned a lot about performing live music doing this!
Infinite Pumpkins: Songs by The Smashing Pumpkins – Wonderville, October 8, 2022
YouTube video by Allen Riley
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"I AM THE BEST ARTIST René" by René Moncada on West Broadway between Spring and Broome Street circa 1986 appears in the 1988 Superman arcade game by Taito
I saw Mindflayer, Action Trio, Noise Nomads, Kites/Can't, and Shadowmaps at an on-campus apartment at Hampshire College in 2003
IT'S ALWAYS 1999, by MINDFLAYER
21 track album
mindflayer1.bandcamp.com
Hypnogenesis has a wishlist page on Steam! After the response that @allenriley.com and I got at GDC we decided to make a home version! I think we're the only game on Steam that mentions Nam Jun Paik in the description. store.steampowered.com/app/4545390 #indiedev #videofeedback #indiegames
Hypnogenesis on Steam
Hypnogenesis is an experimental video feedback bullet hell game in which arcade gameplay is integrated with the controls of a video synthesizer.
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This year’s @exgs.bsky.social Experimental Games Showcase at @officialgdc.bsky.social was such a joy to help organize and be a part of. Thank you so much to everyone who presented, organized, showed up to pack the room, and came to demo. What an absolute honor to work with these people. ♥️
I discussed the “Oddly Satisfying” video/performance program I curated for @anindexof.bsky.social at the 2026 Society for Cinema and Media Studies featuring Erma Fiend, Blake Andrews and Nina Sobell
I nearly forgot: @allenriley.com did something very important at GDC
I like to think that if Kurt Cobain lived longer he would have started a post-Nirvana techno grunge band inspired by PIL in 1997 called Transcendence Inc.
What an amazing GDC! @allenriley.com and I got to present Hypnogenesis to a huge room of people at the @exgs.bsky.social! At the demo session, the Little Raven Gallery & the @boshis.place x @syzygysf.com party, we had 244 play sessions on the machine! (photo by @jakeweidner.bsky.social)
Got lunch in a ramen place in SF and every song on the radio was by the exact same Jack Johnson style singer with lyrics like “transactions smooth as butter”, I asked and it was indeed AI
Andy Wallace and I showed and discussed Hypnogenesis at a video game concept art exhibition curated by Steph Ng and Meha Murthy at Little Raven Gallery in San Francisco on March 12, 2026. The show also featured microtalks by game designers including Richard Lemarchand and Bridget Winn.
@andymakes.itch.io and I presented Hypnogenesis at The Intersection of Art and Technology on March 10, 2026. The game is on display until March 14.
Hypnogenesis, the video feedback arcade game I made with @andymakes.itch.io is going on a San Francisco tour from March 10-14, 2026 with events at the Intersection of Art & Technology, Little Raven, Experimental Games Showcase at GDC, and boshi's place x Syzygy!
Allen Learns Video Synthesis, 2010/2026 (cutting some multichannel edits of work that has never been displayed)
Exciting news: @allenriley.com and I will be showing Hypnogenesis at the Experimental Games Showcase at @officialgdc.bsky.social We'll be talking about using video synthesis techniques to make video feedback a core gameplay mechanic. We'd love to show the game at your GDC party! Drop us a line!
I made a series of cell phone landscape videos processed with the Sandin Image Processor in 2010
Here's a site with info about Hypnogenesis, the new psychedelic space shooter that I am making with @andymakes.itch.io. The game uses video feedback as a core gameplay mechanic via Andrei Jay's Video Waaaves library. www.hypnogenesis.xyz
Hypnogenesis
Hypnogenesis by Allen Riley and Andy Wallace
hypnogenesis.xyz
I have had to move my studio so many times since moving to Santa Cruz that I feel like I work for an eccentric artist who never makes anything and who I never see
HYPNOGENESIS, a psychedelic space shooter by @andymakes.itch.io and @allenriley.bsky.social , created using video waaaves by Andrei Jay! An analogue visual feast, and yes, we'll have a CRT for display :)
Over at Wonderville doing some more CRT work with @kleeb.bsky.social to get Hypnogenesis (my video feedback game with @allenriley.bsky.social) ready for @magfest.org!!! It's been a minute since I played through the whole game!
I presented "Video Feedback as a Model for Emergent Narrative" at ICIDS 2025 – 18th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling. Thinking about how to approach AI as a live signal medium like electronic music or video synthesis (and not as a source of content).
Allen@allenriley.com · 2y ago17th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling ICIDS 2024 in Barranquilla, Colombia
Just read my PhD application from 2021 and it is heartening to see that I either have done, or have concrete plans to do, pretty much everything I said I would do, although I have not necessarily made anyone aware of these things outside my immediate community
I participated in this song-a-week challenge this fall at the encouragement of my friend Maggie Carson, and at the end you're supposed to go back and re-record one of the songs. Here is mine!
Allen Riley - Mousetrap, by Music Every Week
from the album MEW fall/winter 2025 compilation
musiceveryweek.bandcamp.com
